Tick, tick, tick...

Is that a light I see at the end of this tunnel?

Andrea Mitchell on the Chris Matthews Show:

I think the Republicans are going to crack. What I’ve been told from inside the moderate center of the Republican caucus is that the vote in favor of the president this week — it was against the president but the Republicans holding for the president — was misleading. That they really are not in favor of the surge. They don’t believe it’s going to work. But they basically said the president has until August, until Labor Day. After that, if it doesn’t work, they’re running.

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MITCHELL: They’ll stick until September and then they’ll leave. I believe very firmly that they’re against what he is doing but they feel that General Petraeus has persuaded them that for all intents and purposes, they can’t vote a withdrawal before September.

One needs to be cautious with one's elation, but perhaps sanity is slowly invading Washington DC.



Most Americans don't believe they've sent an utter fool to represent them in Congress regardless of political party, but sometimes it seems they have. Maybe now the fools are slowly getting wiser and will do the right thing.

Or maybe this is to you're liking. Fool, idiot, all the same, right?



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